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Test 6 · Kindness to the dying and visiting the old

A rough cousin moans, «Same bloody story again, Gran, we've heard it.» What's kinder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rough cousin, we · What happens: moan, hear, be · To what, where: Same bloody story, story

This is test 6 of lesson 77 «Kindness to the dying and visiting the old» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: A rough cousin moans, «Same bloody story again, Gran, we've heard it.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cousin	det
2	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moans	nsubj
4	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 story	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 story	punct
7	Same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 story	amod
8	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 story	amod
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moans	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 story	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Gran	punct
12	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 story	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
15	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 moans	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 moans	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 moans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	present	a rough cousin	Same bloody story					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	hear in a quote	present · perfect	we	story					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What's kinder?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 kinder	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kinder	cop
3	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 kinder	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						kind property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Agree with him and walk out of the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Agree	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 walk	cc
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Agree	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	imperative	you not said here					with him = he	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
2	walk out	infinitive	you not said here	the room					vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Attribute

Option 2

Correct her and then start another story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Correct	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 start	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 start	advmod
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Correct	conj
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	infinitive		another story			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Listen patiently; it makes her happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	1 Listen	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 makes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	parataxis
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here					patiently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	it	her = she				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product

Option 4

Tell her she's losing it and needs help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 losing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 losing	aux
5	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 losing	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 needs	cc
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lose	present · progressive	she	it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	need	present	you not said here	help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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